Black Sabbath clearly Owned Metal

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Who Contributed Most to Metal?

  • Metallica

    Votes: 38 20.3%

  • Iron Maiden

    Votes: 15 8.0%

  • Barack Obama

    Votes: 111 59.4%

  • Judas Priest

    Votes: 6 3.2%

  • AC/DC

    Votes: 4 2.1%

  • Savatage

    Votes: 8 4.3%

  • Led Zeppelin

    Votes: 4 2.1%

  • Grim Reaper

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Megadeth

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Pantera

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Steppenwolf

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Stryper

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Total voters
    187
myhatbroke

myhatbroke

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Ok this is coming from another thread. I am pissed. Metallica has clearly revolutionsed metal in every way and I want people to know that. We wouldnt have alot of the rock we have today if it wasnt for them. They were innovative and were truely original. Each song you hear, you can right away disinguish it from any other band and not confuse it with any of their other songs. They were creative in every aspect. From their equipment set up to their song structure!
Iron Maiden too but my hands hurt from typing...but they contributed alot too. :D
 
They were a big influence on me when I was a kid. No Life Till Leather thru And Justice For All. I learned to play all their songs and was waiting on Hammet to die so that I could take his place. :D Kidding about that but I was really into them. My tastes have changed pretty radically since.

When I was 15, I used my pay check from long john silvers to buy a 81 datsun pickup that was spray painted flat black, had one headlight, no tail lights, no bumpers, no radio, no mirrors, 4 knobby tires, and it used/leaked a quart of oil every couple of days. I bought that truck for $90 specifically to go see Metallica in OKC, which was 200 miles away. I had four buds riding along (payed for gas) and we made it there and back in one piece, although one of them that was in the back puked his guts up from the rediculous summer heat that day. Ahhh, the good old days.

I think they had a big influence on modern metal but Black Sabbath are the grand daddies of metal and had it not been for them, metallica would have went straight to "load" or some other bullshit equally crappy.

I know Bon Jovi is a joke but AC/DC is'nt really metal in my book. When some one says "hard rock", I think AC/DC.
 
I'll take Judas Priest's 'Screaming For Vengeance' album because I'm an old fart and JP came first. But no doubt Metallica has influenced todays metal more.
 
Definitely Metallica. Sure, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest were damn good, but Metallica is responsible for what metal is today. Just like how B.S. and J.P. were responsible for Metallica pushing the envolope.
 
I have everything Metallica's done, and enjoy most of it...but Sabbath was a bit earlier, and who influenced Metallica? :D
 
This poll is too open to the interpretation of what 'metal' is. I change my answer... All of them contributed equally.
 
Sabbath invented metal. That is all. Others have flavored it since, and arguably surpassed them, but no Sabbath means no metal.
 
ermghoti said:
Sabbath invented metal. That is all. Others have flavored it since, and arguably surpassed them, but no Sabbath means no metal.
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Sabbath invented metal before all the others were born!
 
timboZ said:
Sabbath invented metal before all the others were born!
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I'm not a big Sabbath fan, but the above is correct.

What Metallica did was to rescue metal from becoming the sole providence of hair bands.
 
NO way! Black Sabbath is over rated. I personaly only like BS when Dio came in. But as for metal influence id say the only thing they did was come up with a heavy sound. Metallica came up with wome incredibly fast riffs that noone else thought of. They did song structures that also no one thought of. Im telling you guys, METALLICA was something else. AND if you get into Metallica like I am you will learn that it wasn't BS or JP that influenced them. It was actually rare bands no one really has heard of. Also bands like U.F.O. and Santana. so NO I don't think so!
 
myhatbroke said:
NO way! Black Sabbath is over rated. I personaly only like BS when Dio came in. But as for metal influence id say the only thing they did was come up with a heavy sound. Metallica came up with wome incredibly fast riffs that noone else thought of. They did song structures that also no one thought of. Im telling you guys, METALLICA was something else. AND if you get into Metallica like I am you will learn that it wasn't BS or JP that influenced them. It was actually rare bands no one really has heard of. Also bands like U.F.O. and Santana. so NO I don't think so!
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:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

How old were you when "Ride the Lightning" came out? Why would you assume some of us haven't been fans since (or before, but I speak only for myself)?

It doesn't particularly matter who influenced Metallica from the point of view of them being a metal band, which they are, of which Sabbath was the first.
 
I'm not a big metal fan.
I do like a lot of Metallica but Lars it a whining douchebag.
 
(old) metalica is awesome and changed metal at that time, but they were not the only ones doing what they do, at the time they basically combined some of the speed and ferocity of slayer and the style (solos, some of the rythmic stuff) of anthrax (arguable, but you could probabaly insert several different bands at the time in there).

Like most of the musical revolutionaries, they revoutionalized making that style of metal popular, they didn't invent it they just had the right flavor at the time.

Then bob rock came and they sucked.
 
mshilarious said:
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

How old were you when "Ride the Lightning" came out? Why would you assume some of us haven't been fans since (or before, but I speak only for myself)?

It doesn't particularly matter who influenced Metallica from the point of view of them being a metal band, which they are, of which Sabbath was the first.
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The Apple Ipod wasnt' the first portable mp3 player, but it sure as hell is the most well known... because its the best out. Same with Metallica. Black Sabbath had a dark overtone with some of the happiest fucking riffs I've ever heard in a 'metal' band. So it depends on what type of metal your talking about, the dark-overtone metal or the dark-everything metal.
 
The popularity of most music genre's can be attributed to one single band or individual. Black Sabbath certainly created what we know today as "Metal". Just as Eddie Cochran invented "rockabilly", the Sex Pistols invented "punk". and Nirvana invented "grunge". While many followers have improved each genre, it's only fair to acknowledge the creator as the most influencial.
 
mikemorgan said:
The popularity of most music genre's can be attributed to one single band or individual. Black Sabbath certainly created what we know today as "Metal". Just as Eddie Cochran invented "rockabilly", the Sex Pistols invented "punk". and Nirvana invented "grunge". While many followers have improved each genre, it's only fair to acknowledge the creator as the most influencial.
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There is a world of difference between Black Sabbath and Metallica.
 
not on topic exxactly but Sabbath > all until they started using keyboards and then they sucked as well. Dio was fun and made Sabbath a bit more interesting, but they did not rock the same as the early sabbath days at all.

Very hard to have real rockand roll cred when you have more $ than you could need and are tired and worn out from playing the same crap for 10 years. It is jsut a fact of nature, many of these bands should hang it up and reinvent themselves rather than put out 5 albums with 3 decent songs among them.

AC/DC too.
 
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